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CBH Talk | Elizabeth Gloucester, The Most Powerful Black Woman Lost to History
Co-presented by the Center for Brooklyn History and The Brooklyn Heights Association
Elizabeth Gloucester, was born into slavery in 1817 in Richmond, Virginia. When she died in Brooklyn Heights six decades later, the Brooklyn Eagle described her as “the wealthiest colored woman in the United States.”
Gloucester’s remarkable story, her financial success and anti-slavery activities, were chronicled this past February in The New York Times by editorial board member Brent Staples. Staples’ essay was the product of nearly two years of research which, as he writes, “rescues her from the margins by drawing on hundreds of pages of archival material - including real estate transactions, banking records and genealogical research conducted across three states.”
The Center for Brooklyn History and The Brooklyn Heights Association are proud to co-present an evening with Staples and historian Prithi Kanakamedala, whose scholarship focuses on Brooklyn Abolitionists and Brooklyn’s nineteenth century free Black communities. Kanakamedala’s upcoming book, Brooklynites: the Free Black Community that Shaped a Borough, relays Gloucester’s often overlooked narrative, detailing her abolitionist, feminist, and social justice activism and the impact she had on the borough we live in today.
Moderated by Dominique Jean-Louis, CBH’s Chief Historian, the program will also shed light on the challenge of this research and the ways that scholars and genealogists must grapple with “silences in the archives” in which lives and voices of marginalized groups are excluded from the historical record. They will bring to life the risks, dangers, and uncertainty of the Civil-War era for New York’s free Black communities, and the critical importance of lifting their stories into the light.
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CBH Talk | Natalie Foster and Tressie McMillan Cottom Discuss “The Guarantee”
zhlédnutí 57Před 19 hodinami
The Guarantee asks us to imagine an America where housing, health care, a college education, dignified work, family care, an inheritance, and an income floor are not only attainable by all but guaranteed, by our government, for everyone. But isn’t this pie-in-the-sky thinking? Not by a long shot, as this provocative new book reveals. Our current economic system is chock full of government-backe...
CBH Talk | Severe Mental Illness: Our Collective Response and Responsibility
zhlédnutí 115Před dnem
Jonathan Rosen’s acclaimed book, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions, has helped move the needle on our understanding of severe mental illness and the ways that society at the governmental, medical, and individual levels has failed to address the crisis posed by those who may be dangerous to the public or themselves. Join us for a conversation abou...
CBH Talk | Ari Berman and Chris Hayes Discuss “Minority Rule”
zhlédnutí 372Před 14 dny
As the United States moves steadily towards a majority-minority future, time and time again the white conservative minority has effectively pushed back representative democracy through voter suppression, election subversion, legislative power grabs, immigration restrictions, gerrymandering, and the whitewashing of history itself. This chipping away at democratic norms, at a fever pitch today, i...
CBH Talk: Exploring “The White Bonus” with Tracie McMillan and Darrick Hamilton
zhlédnutí 556Před 21 dnem
Description: White Bonus is the money white people receive or save when racism works in their favor. In her new book, The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America, Tracie McMillan asks a pressing question: If racism denies people of color so much, just how much does it give to white people in literal dollars and cents? McMillan uses her own story and those of five othe...
CBH Talk | Could It Happen Here?
zhlédnutí 454Před měsícem
Throughout America’s history an illiberal strain of political thought has existed within our democratic society, argues Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Steven Hahn in his new book Illiberal America. We see it today in White Nationalism, “America First,'' demonization of immigrants and people of color, anti-Semitism, stand your ground laws and more. But when does illiberalism cross the line int...
CBH Just Conversations: Medical Racism, An Issue of Life and Death
zhlédnutí 134Před měsícem
CBH Just Conversations: Medical Racism, An Issue of Life and Death
CBH Talk | Carol Kino and Laura Raicovich Discuss “Double Click”
zhlédnutí 74Před 2 měsíci
Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines. Kino portrays the McLaughlin sisters, the identical twin photographers who blazed new trails for women in the 1930s and 40s. While celebrated in their time as stars in their fields, the McLaughlin twins have largely been forgotten until now. Their story, as told by Kino, shines a fresh light on this extraordinary moment in our his...
CBH Talk | The Legacy of The East, Brooklyn's Center of Black Self-Determination
zhlédnutí 147Před 3 měsíci
In 1969, following the Black-led effort to bring community control to schools in Ocean Hill-Brownsville, educator and activist Jitu Weusi and others founded The East, a groundbreaking, pan-African center rooted in the philosophy that Black people have the right to control their own communities and institutions. Expanding into dozens of educational and cultural initiatives including a school, pe...
Racial Politics and Emancipatory Alternatives: Juliet Hooker and Lawrie Balfour in Conversation
zhlédnutí 187Před 5 měsíci
The Center for Brooklyn History joined two leading scholars on race and democracy for this virtual conversation about racial politics, loss, and freedom. Juliet Hooker (Brown University) wrote Black Grief/White Grievance, contrasting a tradition of Black political mobilization spurred by violent death and subsequent public mourning, with a politics of white grievance that imagines the U.S. as a...
CBH Talk | How Barbra Sees Herself: Discussing Streisand’s Memoir
zhlédnutí 571Před 5 měsíci
Barbra Streisand’s newly released memoir, My Name is Barbra, clocks in at 992 pages. Famously in control of her own narrative, this long-awaited memoir gives unprecedented insight into one of Brooklyn’s most renowned daughters. Join us as three cultural observers analyze, discuss and debate Streisand’s autobiographical tome. Filmmaker Ethan Fuirst moderates a panel featuring writer Maris Kreizm...
CBH Talk | Brooklyn Miniaturists
zhlédnutí 89Před 5 měsíci
Danny Cortes, Aaron Kinard, and Jack Giambanco have many things in common. They are all longtime Brooklynites, all self-taught artists whose passion for making miniatures took hold in just the last few years, and all make work that represents Brooklyn in stunningly intricate detail. Join them in a conversation about their craft, Brooklyn, and how they found themselves in this world of tiny art.
CBH Talk | Isaac Butler and Zoe Kazan Discuss “The Method”
zhlédnutí 477Před 6 měsíci
CBH Talk | Isaac Butler and Zoe Kazan Discuss “The Method”
CBH Talk | Joe Sexton and Errol Louis discuss "The Lost Sons of Omaha"
zhlédnutí 173Před 6 měsíci
CBH Talk | Joe Sexton and Errol Louis discuss "The Lost Sons of Omaha"
CBH Talk | Jocelyn Simonson and James Forman Jr. Discuss “Radical Acts of Justice”
zhlédnutí 104Před 6 měsíci
CBH Talk | Jocelyn Simonson and James Forman Jr. Discuss “Radical Acts of Justice”
CBH Talk | Michael Waldman and Jesse Wegman on the Supreme Court
zhlédnutí 250Před 7 měsíci
CBH Talk | Michael Waldman and Jesse Wegman on the Supreme Court
CBH Talk | Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich
zhlédnutí 115Před 7 měsíci
CBH Talk | Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich
Martha Hodes on “My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering”
zhlédnutí 406Před 9 měsíci
Martha Hodes on “My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering”
Blair Kelley and Martha Jones Discuss “Black Folk”
zhlédnutí 339Před 10 měsíci
Blair Kelley and Martha Jones Discuss “Black Folk”
Of Manacles and Monuments - Act 2: Gates, Barriers, and Confinement
zhlédnutí 61Před 10 měsíci
Of Manacles and Monuments - Act 2: Gates, Barriers, and Confinement
Of Manacles and Monuments - Act 3 Our National Healing and the Role of Art
zhlédnutí 50Před 10 měsíci
Of Manacles and Monuments - Act 3 Our National Healing and the Role of Art
Kibbitz & Nosh, Photographs of Dubrow’s Cafeteria
zhlédnutí 327Před 10 měsíci
Kibbitz & Nosh, Photographs of Dubrow’s Cafeteria
Of Manacles and Monuments - Act 1: History, Monuments, and Reframing the Narrative
zhlédnutí 23Před 10 měsíci
Of Manacles and Monuments - Act 1: History, Monuments, and Reframing the Narrative
CBH Talk | Say His Name, Arthur Miller: A Death by Police Chokehold 45 Years Ago
zhlédnutí 274Před 11 měsíci
CBH Talk | Say His Name, Arthur Miller: A Death by Police Chokehold 45 Years Ago
Three Roeblings, 140 Years, and Celebrating the Brooklyn Bridge
zhlédnutí 205Před rokem
Three Roeblings, 140 Years, and Celebrating the Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn’s in the House: Exploring The Borough’s Local Hip Hop History, Part 2
zhlédnutí 191Před rokem
Brooklyn’s in the House: Exploring The Borough’s Local Hip Hop History, Part 2
Brooklyn’s in the House: Exploring The Borough’s Local Hip Hop History, Part 1
zhlédnutí 298Před rokem
Brooklyn’s in the House: Exploring The Borough’s Local Hip Hop History, Part 1
Open Arms, Closed Borders and the Future of America’s Immigration Myth
zhlédnutí 70Před rokem
Open Arms, Closed Borders and the Future of America’s Immigration Myth
At Water's Edge
zhlédnutí 108Před rokem
At Water's Edge
W. E. B. Du Bois’ Unexamined Struggle
zhlédnutí 281Před rokem
W. E. B. Du Bois’ Unexamined Struggle

Komentáře

  • @cherodanrockaway2034

    Can somebody point me as to where the Rockaway name came from? Ive been lead to believe by several sources that its possibly of lenape origins and want to get to know my ancestry a lot better

  • @LegitShmullz
    @LegitShmullz Před 2 dny

    Is it possible to discuss history as it was instead of using new age woke terms? Did the Anglo Dutch Elite leave because they were racist? Were they anti consolidation because of xenophobia? This is not a talk about how great these were or became it’s just bunch of brainwashed leftists that making everything retroactively about race 🙄

  • @ChefbyMistake
    @ChefbyMistake Před 3 dny

    This is the most ideotic concept of Leftism/ Liberalism. If you have to divide people on the based of their race then you are not a liberal or progressive.

  • @tmarq4655
    @tmarq4655 Před 5 dny

    Sadly, she miss the most important issue facing the South, education. Most of its citizens remains in denial that science, math and just a simple education will make them all better in life. Their conservative values and strong religious upbringing locks their generation in a pattern of obedience to the church, the con-man, and to their parents' ignorance. Their ideals are locked into killing animals for hunting or just for the sake of killing. Their concept of being friendly only goes as far as their skin color, and their abilities to try and learn about the realities of life shut down as soon as a conversation is started. Yes, the kept homogenized within a Southern mindset of ignorance, and yes, they do believe they're egotistically the dominant race in the nation, both are false, and that will be their cycle for their demised as a tribe.

  • @gerrysharpe1958
    @gerrysharpe1958 Před 11 dny

    A good companion book. Black labor, white wealth, published 1994, Dr. Anderson's first book is a classic. It tracks slavery and Jim Crow public policies that used black labor to construct a superpower nation. It details how black people were socially engineered into the lowest level of a real life Monopoly game, which they are neither playing or winning. Black Labor is a comprehensive analysis of the issues of race. Dr. Anderson uses the anaylsis in this book to offer solutions to America's race problem.

  • @Owl350
    @Owl350 Před 13 dny

    Propaganda Commercial

  • @StefanM-fy3ns
    @StefanM-fy3ns Před 15 dny

    Yes, young men doing ballet, this is the best answer on how to make a bunch of males get along. You should also make them sing opera and play with dolls.

  • @AdvancedNursesEdConsultant

    @22:50 I completely understand this point. We often leave because of a lack of support.

  • @JohnSmith-bh8um
    @JohnSmith-bh8um Před 22 dny

    I hear the "support black business" everywhere i go. But as a non-racist, is it wrong of me to support all business? If jerome, blake, and Jose all made bologna sandwiches. Shouldn't my dollar go towards the best made sandwich, instead of the black made sandwich?

  • @citizencaitlin7240
    @citizencaitlin7240 Před 23 dny

    The wealth bonus is the bonus to have. That and health

  • @matthew-jy5jp
    @matthew-jy5jp Před 24 dny

    History is not just then, but a now. We are making history and we all play a small part in how it turns out

  • @matthew-jy5jp
    @matthew-jy5jp Před 24 dny

    I honestly think that Shelby foot said it best something like 25 years ago. That any understanding of the American character in the 21st century has to have a deep understanding Of the American Civil War. And just like Heather just said. " We are still having this conversation today " And its because it was left unresolved. I think if Lincoln had survived our country would been in a much better place. Because president Lincoln didn't want any trials and penalties and punishments he wanted to unify all his people. And I believe he would have done it. But when Lincoln died it radicalized the Republican party and the teaching the confederates a lesson and made reconstruction another war of attrition. And it would be the Freed people who paid the price for the war and failure if reconstruction. And I truly believe it failed because Lincoln was not there to lead the country through it.

  • @matthew-jy5jp
    @matthew-jy5jp Před 27 dny

    Both brilliant writers

  • @Hannibal082
    @Hannibal082 Před měsícem

    You’re not convinced by Judy Holiday??

  • @evangravitz4029
    @evangravitz4029 Před měsícem

    In my maternal line, I am a descendant of a woman whom I have been told was half native American. She may have had Lenape ancestry. Her maiden name was Manuel, and she was born outside of Lenapehoking, in Liverpool, Pennsylvania. I wish that I could find out more about her and her ancestry.

  • @ringogringo814
    @ringogringo814 Před měsícem

    Jesse Wegman and the incestuous New York Times participate in the Democratic party's election fraud.

  • @stacyMighty
    @stacyMighty Před měsícem

    We migrated to the United Staes in 1980 legally, none of our family were here before the 1960s

  • @stacyMighty
    @stacyMighty Před měsícem

    Very interesting

  • @62CDN
    @62CDN Před měsícem

    Marie's book is so wonderful

  • @BobDingus-bh3pd
    @BobDingus-bh3pd Před 2 měsíci

    They completely dismiss that their side of the isle might have done something wrong to lead people to vote for T. I thought the lesson from WW2 is not to pre-commit to any one party or ideology with certainty? Kind of disappointing to hear this stuff from Snyder

  • @ibeamish1
    @ibeamish1 Před 2 měsíci

    At the end they were asked if there were historical examples of the slide into autocracy/fascism ever checked and reversed. Snyder referred to the failure of the "Communist Coup" in 1920s Germany. This is an extraordinary and revealing response. There was a failed Communist Workers insurrection, unsupported by the great majority of Germans and by Russia. It wasn't followed by liberalization, it was followed by Nazism. This suggests that Snyder's critics may be correct when they describe him as an anti-communist idealogue. The example of McCarthyism in the US wouldn't occur to him for the same reason.

  • @annesaur7025
    @annesaur7025 Před 2 měsíci

    Wilhelm Hildenbrand schon mal gehört?

  • @olakuremyr1223
    @olakuremyr1223 Před 2 měsíci

    Great author, Cod and Salt

  • @ricenglish4556
    @ricenglish4556 Před 2 měsíci

    Malcom X warned Colored Folk years ago about the racist ways of White Liberals. They are and they know they are, don't let them fool you. Colored Folk are also racist, maybe even more so. In fact, not maybe, definitely. They just know they can get away with it. Their best defense would be education, attempting to obey the law, musical training, and to try and stop some gang banger from screaming curse words into a microphone. Ha, good luck.

  • @Zwurbelbart
    @Zwurbelbart Před 2 měsíci

    This aged well

  • @KamWTeo
    @KamWTeo Před 2 měsíci

    Eye roll by Tim upon hearing, "American Exceptionalism!" Priceless.

  • @paulvargas2609
    @paulvargas2609 Před 3 měsíci

    Everyone laughing at her book and pretty much just picking on her was nauseating. I thought they would discuss her book seriously but they were not very professional at all.

  • @tudormiller887
    @tudormiller887 Před 3 měsíci

    Not all Jews are Anti Israel or Anti Zionist. Baruch Hashem.❤

  • @LoraineHowardPresley-qy9xi
    @LoraineHowardPresley-qy9xi Před 3 měsíci

    Elohim halleluyah is in control over everything

  • @LoraineHowardPresley-qy9xi
    @LoraineHowardPresley-qy9xi Před 3 měsíci

    They're will be white slave in the future. As the Bible states

  • @LoraineHowardPresley-qy9xi
    @LoraineHowardPresley-qy9xi Před 3 měsíci

    Esau and Jacob twin nation's

  • @abouthisbiz4330
    @abouthisbiz4330 Před 3 měsíci

    Im always late to the table, so many authors i haven't read, so many discussions i haven't heard. It seems on this particular panel, i don't get to hear the flip side as to why we still have the penalty. I can only imagine without full knowledge of the subject it must have been used as a criminal deterrence and or retribution for the victims loved ones left behind. So if i could ask a rudimentary question. What is the stats that the death penalty plays a role as a deterrent and do loved ones of victims find some sense of closure from it? The Gestaltist would say true closure comes from "filling in missing" people or places as it relates to relationships. I would agree that it would also hold true but quite difficult with respect to missing someone out of an untimely death. For example, a 50 year old mother can't generally juat make another child when an only child has been violently killed. Follow up question, if you take away the penalty are you also taking away from the victims family right to an eye for an eye?

  • @bpantoine
    @bpantoine Před 3 měsíci

    I think this is exactly what DR Umar have in mind with #FDMG

  • @MT-or7lv
    @MT-or7lv Před 3 měsíci

    Wonderful top shelf.

  • @ianjmcbride
    @ianjmcbride Před 3 měsíci

    Painful

  • @DougPetersen-td7du
    @DougPetersen-td7du Před 4 měsíci

    Perpetual victimhood in minorities is racist

  • @scorchedearth360
    @scorchedearth360 Před 4 měsíci

    Despite *literally making civilization, maintaining it and keeping it safe from highly diverse (criminal) areas and people, white men get harsh treatment from these women who've accomplished nothing and contributed nothing likewise.*

  • @Xilla-posseLgendary
    @Xilla-posseLgendary Před 4 měsíci

    delusional, bs, let them give up every thing and live off the grid in the the middle of nowhere

  • @davidcrawford219
    @davidcrawford219 Před 4 měsíci

    Treaty of the Delawares

  • @johnhoward6393
    @johnhoward6393 Před 4 měsíci

    The Democratic party needs new leadership - whatever happens.

  • @KatieStarVocalCoach
    @KatieStarVocalCoach Před 4 měsíci

    That sounds pretty terrible in 2024 terms. Oh my. Back then what people did sounds so hard now. It’s pretty wonderful these hard working people did their best back then. I’m glad the world is getting better and easier for us all

  • @DruuzilTechGames
    @DruuzilTechGames Před 5 měsíci

    Leftism in 2023 is anti-white by definition. Leftists are ALL racists.

  • @sammy2373
    @sammy2373 Před 5 měsíci

    All religions built themselves by destroying African spirituality & their concepts & image of god & replacing it with a European savior. everyone has their concepts & their own myths & heroes but black people were stripped of everything & taken into physical & mental slavery by people who claimed they were superior.

  • @derekarmunendua5991
    @derekarmunendua5991 Před 5 měsíci

    White liberals usually have NPD

  • @danielwelsh7774
    @danielwelsh7774 Před 5 měsíci

    What is the purpose of this whole thing?, Really?!! To hold a forum of your opinions of her autobiography is a waste of my time. I’m not even done reading it yet, as many others and you have speakers talking about the way she stores her belongings. So what if it’s a street of shops to reminisce about the past….it’s not a shopping mall! So much sensationalism….you’ve made enough money off of her name! Give it a rest!!! Thumbs down!!!!

  • @udz39
    @udz39 Před 5 měsíci

    Jonathan Tolins is kind of meanspirited. 👎

  • @Beastar77
    @Beastar77 Před 5 měsíci

    The woman in Cream jumper

  • @Beastar77
    @Beastar77 Před 5 měsíci

    Get the black woman off the panel . She is a boring narcissist

    • @Beastar77
      @Beastar77 Před 5 měsíci

      Sorry I forgot her name , the journalist

  • @danielmiller50150
    @danielmiller50150 Před 5 měsíci

    I don't understand how most blacks vote Democrat and believe that anyone on the right is racist no matter what there color is the they want to white shame and that is another form of racism but I think a lot of people are waking up to the woke ideology much love and peace

  • @CALLAHAN19
    @CALLAHAN19 Před 6 měsíci

    I'm sick an tired of racist attacks on whites by blacks an nobody gives a rats ass... It never makes the news an if it does, they don't say a word about it being a hate crime... Fight fire with fire, blacks use race 24/7 when there's cases that has absolutely nothing to do with race, so why don't white people do the same... Even when it's obvious that a white person was attacked by a racist black punk, it never is called a hate crime... it makes me sick an I'm sick an tired of it... Give them a taste of their own damn medicine, call it what it is when there's a white victim by the hands of Obamas children.. Me personally I think the media an the local government are scared to get white America in a uproar, that's why they refuse to recognize black racist attacks on whites... They cover it up because I truly believe that they are frightened by the thought of whites in a uproar... It makes me sick when there's a obvious case of a racist attack on whites by the Obamas... ever since that lowlife Obama said if he had a son he'd like that to be trevon martin, that's when I started calling black criminals Obamas children or Michelle Obamas daughters... Nobody can say that they don't know what I'm talking about when it's NEVER EVER CALLED A HATE CRIME WHEN THE VICTIM IS WHITE BY THE HANDS OF A BLACK CRIMINAL... Tell me I'm wrong...